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CONTENTS
14 "Jews: A Singular Confusion"
25 Death, Life, Days Of Awe
31 Local Teen Confronts Holocaust
37 The Year 5745 In Review
80 Danny Raskin
117, Classified Advertising
129 Obituaries
130 155 Personal New Year's Greetings
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We Hope Yours is the Happiest Imaginable!
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New Approach For The
New Year Suggested
BY ARNO HERZBERG
It was a year of disappoint-
ment and discontent. The
kaleidoscopic array of events
was hardly encouraging. There
were blows after blows and they
came in rapid succession. It took
all our strength to see it
through.
The 40-year hunt for Joseph
Mengele, the Auschwitz "Angel
of Death," ended in some
graveyard. The questions that
arose from that cemetery left us
confused and perplexed. They
will never be answered.
There was another strange
story of a Nazi murderer. Klaus
The turn of the
century is not too far
away. It should
influence our
thinking now, today.
Barbie, the "Butcher of Lyon,"
once sentenced to death by a
French court, is about to escape
punishment. It took two years
for a French judge to decide that
Barbie was innocent of charges
involving "assassinations, arres-
tations and deportations." He
could only be charged of com-
plicity in the deportation of 452
French Jews in 1943 and 1944
while he was head of the ges-
tapo in Lyon.
After a 17-month trial an-
other gestapo murderer, Harri
Schulz, was cleared of charges
having murdered Jews among
5,000 transported in 1942 to the
death camp in Auschwitz. A
court in Hamburg, Germany,
found that after 40 years
charges could not be proved be-
yond a reasonable doubt.
A war criminal who had
gained American citizenship in
spite of his Nazi past was to be
deported from America to Israel
to stand trial. In this and other
cases, American judges granted
delay after delay and gave mur-
derers the opportunity to escape
just punishment. Furthermore, a
German "scientist" who had lied
about his Nazi past was permit-
ted to slip out of the United
States. He escaped with a
presidential medal gwen him for
his efforts in our space program.
Then there was Bitburg when
Presidential logic stood on his
head.
This list of distasteful events
could be extended at will. We
could add the obvious bias of the
media, the corroding influence
of newscasters and paid prop-
agandists. We could include
judgments rendered with a polit-
ical flavor and some baffling
acrobatics. If anything, this year
severely tested our sense of jus-
tice. It has created doubts, a
kind of numbness that was de-
scended on many of us and a
cynical "What's next?" might
not be far from our minds.
Still, not all these happenings
are directed against Jews or are
the result of anti-Jewish bias.
They are an expression of the
moral devastation that has
engulfed the world. There is
enough of it to go around and
affect the lives of Jews and
non-Jews. There is the crime
wave all over the world, the ter-
rorism, the purse snatching, the
corrupting influence of Arab oil
money, accumulated by extor-
tion, and the obvious paralysis
of politicians, police and legal
authorities to cope with it.
Everywhere we see moral eva-
sion, a growing incompetence to
meet pressing problems and an
appalling ineptness accompanied
by an extensive polarization.
The turn of the century is not
too far away. It should influence
our thinking now, today. The
demographic time bomb, short of
a miracle, will be with Ameri-
can Jewry and their number
will decline.
The future raises still a host
of other questions. There is, not
only for Jews, the distinct possi-
bility that, at the turn of the
century, the economies of the
West will have to face fierce
competition from the economies
of the Near and Far East. The
center of productive capacities
might shift to some Arab coun-
tries and to the Far East. The
changing currents of economic
and political adjustments will
affect everyone. For Jews the
selection of trades and profes-
sions should be a matter of con-
cern right now.
It all boils down to the neces-
sity to think beyond established
patterns and conventional
methods of the past. There must
be a new agenda for a New
Year.
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